THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN, WE’D HAVE A PRESIDENT STRETCHING EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE BEYOND ALL LEGALITY. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Obama folds on aid order secrecy. “The White House has given up its legal fight to keep secret an unclassified directive President Barack Obama signed in 2010 setting foreign aid policy across the U.S. Government. In a sharply-worded opinion issued in December, U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle rejected the administration’s arguments that Obama’s Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development was protected by executive privilege.”